Being well-meaning doesn't excuse ignorance.
8BA wrote:We're just your average people who want schools to make our kids smarter
The people you voted for are doing the opposite. The Republican party has been representative of the religious right-wing that's tried to force back in non-science as science (trying to pass off creationism as real science under the guise of "intelligent design") and consistently uses its propaganda media such as Fox News to promote distrust of well-established conventional science policy.
The current appointed Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is widely documented to promote private (for-profit religious) education at the cost of destroying the public school system (which the religious right oligarchs see as a good thing in order both to promote their religion and funnel money into the pockets of for-profit school operators). She's also been very active in defending predatory lending firms which have taken advantage of students.
clean neighborhoods where our kids can be safe outside
If this is a reference to gang violence, conservative policy has exacerbated this, not made it better. Current right-wing groups actively push back against real efforts to combat poverty by constantly demonizing social projects such as welfare, food assistance, improvements to infrastructure, etc. Right-wing policy almost exclusively focuses on tax cuts for the wealthy upper-class, thus taking away funds that could be allocated to focus on reducing poverty which is well documented to be directly tied to the safety of neighbourhoods.
Not to mention the constant climate change denialism in the Republican party is going to jeopardize this goal. If action is not taken, in a few thousand years many neighbourhoods may well be unlivable from sheer climate change alone.
and media that is safe for our kids to absorb.
I don't even know what you're trying to get at here. We have ratings organizations that pass ratings on movies and videogames as far as what is appropriate for children, and parents have a responsibility to be reasonably informed and involved in the lives of their children to tell them what's OK and not OK as far as media goes.
And I'm sure a right-wing propaganda mill such as "Fox News" that exists almost exclusively to defend the Republicans no matter how egregiously they behave does not qualify as media that is safe for anyone to consume.
We don't want baby organ factories in our country or people being allowed to poison or diddle kids. Everyone who is for those things seems to hate Trump, so we like Trump.
Uh... nobody has proposed baby organ factories, I hate to break it to you, and it's already against the law to poison or molest children.
It's about that simple, and also everything the left touches goes straight to Hell and we can all see it online or by simply walking outside.
I'm pretty sure the left isn't responsible for banning the CDC from treating gun violence as an epidemic and funding research into trying to stop school shootings. That was the work of a Republican who was working to protect the corporate interests of gun manufacturers represented by the NRA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment
the language in a report accompanying the Omnibus spending bill clarifies that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can indeed conduct research into gun violence, but cannot use government appropriated funds to specifically advocate for gun control.[18] It was signed into law by U.S. President Donald J. Trump on March 23, 2018.[19]
Essentially, Trump has paid lip service to gun violence without actually giving the CDC any way to address it by preventing it from using funds to advocate for policy that would demonstrably help address it (i.e. basic gun control measures). This sort of protecting large corporate interests who line the pockets of Republicans is also at work in the healthcare system, where Republicans advocate for privatization in order to protect the corporate insurance companies who funnel cash to their campaigns. Republicans are the party that consistently acts to protect the wealth of corporate backers and shows a flagrant disregard for the well-being of the public they are elected to serve.
Trump voters aren't sitting around online studying up on political ideologies
There are plenty of right-wing neo-nazi groups alive and well that are operating in the USA who vocalize their support for Trump, so this assertion of yours is factually incorrect.
they're trying to get through the day without them or thier family running into any weirdos.
When you say "weirdos" do you mean "people with non-white skin and non-Aryan features"? Do you think
the neo-Nazis who descended on Charlottesville, Virginia and got a woman killed were "weirdos"? The same neo-Nazis who were defined as "very fine people" by Trump I might add, as he essentially declared them and their actions to be morally equivalent to the people who showed up to protest the presence of neo-Nazis in their city.
"Tribalism!" cried the opposing tribe as they readied their spears fashioned from discarded hypodermic needles provided to them by the state!
Your casual dismissal of tribalism as a very real and unfortunate phenomenon that's taining your country's political system aside, supervised injection sites attempt to provide a real benefit to communities struggling with drug abuse. They are not a primary fix for drug abuse and tackling drug problems requires a multifaceted approach, but you're casually denigrating their use as a tool to combat drug abuse while defending a political party that has done essentially nothing to help with America's opioid drug epidemic (and indeed the Republican push for for-profit healthcare has almost certainly helped to cause this).
Indeed, the Republican party for years has actively promoted harsh sentences for users of marijuana, a drug that is relatively harmless and less harmful than alcohol, something which is widely done to prop up the corporate interests of the for-profit prison systems that support them. In other countries such as Portugal there is good evidence to support treating individual drug use not as a criminal concern but as a health concern:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
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In essence, it's really hypocritical to suggest your party is all for this and that when their activities have actually
been key in preventing real and measurable improvements to these areas. The Republican party has fooled a massive amount of people into genuinely believing they care about the average American while being able to get away with doing the exact opposite and enriching themselves and their wealthy corporate partners.